Robert, So you are saying that every service man that takes a camera, or notebook, or diary to war is doing so to further a some-day-in-the-future political career?
That all of the pictures of Abu-Ghraib were taken for that purpose? Or is it just John Kerry who had that particular motive? Secondly, you contend that people don't become politicized overnight by tramatic events? All of the vets that came back from war (pick any war in our history) and ran for office were scheming the whole time to use their service as a political tool? >From my experience growing up around local, state and national politics, I would say that almost _all_ of the politicians I know personally were driven into politics by some tramatic experience that forced them to get into the (to them) dirty job of politics. The events range from increased taxes on family farms so that their cousins lost the family farm, to anger over emminant domain plans for roadwork, to a fight against an openly corrupt incumbant. Few of them got into it for the limelight or the love of politics. Admittedly, some were lost to the dark side, but that was _after_ being in office for a while. On 11/12/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm not especially defending bush, what i am saying is that bush is no > different than a lot of other people at that time. as for kerry, why did he > take a video camera? the guy obviously planned a career in politics and he > wanted some hero footage. i never dissed his service, but to suggest that he > suddenly became politicized after vietnam is just absurd. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:220450 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
